All the Group winners are the expected powerhouse in their own category. Except for Group G with Brazil and Portugal as FIFA World Rankings Top 10 teams, all other groups have one top-10 team from last year (sans Croatia). There are several high-powered matches I'm not going to miss -- such as today's England-USA, or Netherlands-Denmark, Brazil-Portugal, Spain-chile, even Italy-Paraguay. Since the top two in each group will move to Round 16, here's my prediction of who will move through: (Of course, you'll disagree!)
Group A
Mexico
Uruguay (France misses Zidane badly.)
Group B
Argentina (already ahead with 1-0 win over Nigeria)
South Korea (2-0 win over Greece is an impressive start)
Group C
England
USA (Unless Algeria does some miracle!)
Group D
Germany
Ghana (I'm betting on them this time.)
Group E
Netherlands
Cameroon (Just can't pick the Danes over them.)
Group F
Italy (Waka Waka Italia!)
Paraguay
Group G
Brazil (If anyone says they aren't going up to QF, it's blasphemy.)
Portugal
Group H
Spain
Chile
Round 16 rule: Group A winner plays Group B runner up, Group B winner plays Group A runner up, Group C winner vs. Group D runner up...and so on.
(A1) Mexico vs. (B2) South Korea
(B1) Argentina vs. (A2) Uruguay
(C1) England vs. (D2) Ghana
(D1) Germany vs. (C2) USA
(E1) Netherlands vs. (F2) Paraguay
(F1) Italy vs. (E2) Cameroon
(G1) Brazil vs. (H2) Chile
(H1) Spain vs. (G2) Portugal
More prediction to follow.....
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